How To Take A Good Insult: 8 Lessons From The Great Indian AIB Knockout

You know what’s the good thing about humour? Everyone can be a subject. Because everyone has flaws. And everyone likes to indulge in some bricks and bats every now and then. So what do we do? Break the glass and indulge in humour black and blue. The super nasty and super brilliant comedians from AIB, along with two shameless superstars Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor, brought us a riot of mean badass insults hurled right and left in The Great Indian AIB Knockout. After laughing till our stomachs and cheeks hurt, we compiled these 8 lessons the jackasses in the show taught us on how to take a good insult.

So let us teach you how to take an insult by the horns, twist it around, and wear it as your crown of glory.

1. The fact that somebody is insulting you means you are interesting and eccentric enough to be joked at. The biggest insult is not being insulted. Like Rohan Joshi who is so generic that there can be no jokes on him anymore. So be thankful to god that somebody is insulting you! You are special, honey!

2. Killer comeback! Nothing, absolutely nothing beats a good insult than an even better comeback. Be smart and clever, and give back the bastard a little taste of his own medicine. When Ranveer Singh kneels in front of Karan Johar hinting at casting couch, Johar seems to have been cornered. He takes all our respect with his smartass comeback, “Ranveer, that was my position.”

3. Own up! Be a sporting butt of ridicule! Nothing disarms your attacker more than this. More often than not, the insults are true. The sooner you accept your flaws and learn to joke about them, the sooner you’ll be on the other side, buddy.

4. Smile. Even if it’s a constipated I-want-to-kick-your-ass-but-don’t-know-how-to smile. Not laughing at a good joke doesn’t look sexy on you, jackass. Do you think all the people sitting in the audience found it funny when they were mocked at every time? Hah! It’s like that smile when someone else wins the award and all cameras focus on the loser – smiling with pursed lips.

5. When someone jokes about how fat you are, show them some looove. Go hug it out. And make sure you squeeze them in your high-pressure embrace. It’s all in good humour, of course.

6. And when someone abuses you in the filthiest and foulest of words, first gauge whether he is serious and muscular. If yes, run in the opposite direction. But if not, embrace the abuses. Much like how Raghu did when Arjun Kapoor asked him if he shouts at his dear organ just like he does at the contestants of his show.

7. Laugh uncontrollably if the joke is actually good. Now, come on, it’s not about you. It’s about how clever they can be with insults. So appreciate the f***** a little for his wit.

8. If the joke is not good, pull a straight face, and make it good. Tell the idiot how unfunny he was and how he could have been funnier and nastier in insulting you. Yeah, that means you’d have to insult yourself, but that’s okay, self-respect is not really a virtue, now, is it?